Ebola suspected patient’s health gets improved

Health condition of the suspected patient who is receiving medical treatment at Waibargi Hospital in Yangon has improved on Saturday, becoming better than yesterday while his four close contacts are in good health, said the Ministry of Health.

According to the ministry, the male patient had normal body temperature and blood pressure at 120/80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) and he was able to walk and normally ate food on Saturday morning. The man has not experienced any bleeding symptoms since he was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday, it added.

The male patient who arrived in the country by air on Tuesday is being given appropriate treatments at the hospital in accord with the instructions of consultants as he was diagnosed with a severe and complicated malaria with mixed infection of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax by lab tests on Wednesday.